Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

I-AfriForum ne-Indonsa Yesizwe ibungaza Ukukhothama kweSilo uDinuzulu kaCetshwayo eminyakeni eyi-110 eyedlule

I-AfriForum kanye nezingcithabuchopho zoBukhosi bakwaZulu Indonsa Yesizwe babungaze Ifamlando wleSilo uDinuzulu kaCetshwayo ngokuhlanganyela ekuhlanzekiseni ithuna lapho bonke abomndeni ngqo bafihlwa khona. Abasebenzi baKwaZulu-Natal Museum kanye neKwaZulu-Natal Archives nabo babambe iqhaza kule phrojekthi epulazini i-Rietfontein, esifundeni saseMiddelburg, esiseMpumalanga. Eminyakeni eyi-110 gqo, mhlaziyi-18 kuMfumfu 1913, Isilo uDinuzulu saphefumula okokugcina kuleli pulazi.

Iziphathimandla ze-Natal Colony zathumba Isilo uDinuzulu emva kwe-Poll Tax Revolt (ephinde yaziwe ngeBambata Rebellion) yangonyaka we-1906. Ngesikhathi kusungulwa i-Union of South Africa ngonyaka we-1910, Isilo uDinuzulu sakhululwa ejele eliseNewcastle sadedelwa ukuba sihlale epulazini i-Rietfontein. UNdunankulu we-Union, ujenerali uLouis Botha, wabamba iqhaza elikhulu ekukhululweni kwesilo. UBotha wayesijwayele isilo, njengoba uBotha, eseyibhungu, wayeyilungu le-Commandant Lucas Meijer eleseka Isilo uDinuzulu ukuba sinqobe uMandlakazi, okwakuyimbangi kaZulu, ku-Battle of Ghost Mountain (eTshaneni) ngowe-1884.

“Umcimbi wayizolo (18 kuMfumfu)ube wuphawu lombungazo obaluleke kakhulu lokuvuselela ubuhlobo obabukade baba khona phakathi kwalezi zizwe zamaBhunu namaZulu. Lobu buhlobo baqiniswa ngowe-1840 yiSilo uMpande owamema amaBhunu ukuba amsize ekuvuseleleni uBukhosi bakwaZulu emva kokubusa kweSilo uDingane. Eminyakeni elandelayo amaBhunu ebedlala indima efanayo esiza Isilo uDinizulu ezimpini ayezilwa eziningi eminyakeni yangezi-1880. Isu lokuqala lokuhlanganyela phakathi kwe-Afriforum ne-Indonsa Yesizwe, amathuna abantwana beSilo uDinuzulu ahlanzekisiwe. Impela kube usuku lokubuyisana,” kusho uSlwz Musa Xulu, uMsunguli we-Indonsa Yesizwe.

“Ubuhlobo obuhle phakathi kwemiphakathi yamasiko eyisisekelo sokubuyisana nenhlonipho kusemqoka ukuqinisekisa inkululeko, ukuphepha, nekusasa eliqhakazile lezingane zayo yonke imiphakathi yamasiko eningizimu ne-Afrika. Kunezibonelo eziningi emlandweni zobuhlobo obuhle phakathi kwemiphakathi yamasiko. Kumele sibulalele lobu buhlakani basemandulo, futhi lesi sizukulwane samanje sithathe isinqumo sokuhamba ezinyathelweni zawokhokho bethu ngalokhu. I-AfriForum, ngokwamaphrojekthi okuhlanganyela. afana nalawa, ukwakha ubuxhakaxhaka bemiphakathi yamasiko exhasanayo ekuthungatheni ukuphila ngokugcwele njengemiphakathi yamasiko echosheni eliseningizimu ne-Afrika,” kusho uBarend Uys, inhloko ye-Intercultural Relations and Cooperation e-AfriForum.